Gary Marks

There's an old saying that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Here's an example of some loud squeaking with high levels of readership... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-pulls-developer-accounts-of-wireguard-and-veracrypt/ It's great to see the support that the developer of this program receives!

This is a sad turn of events, Mounir! This may seem a bit out in left field (to use an American idiom), but is it possible that some seemingly minor aspect of your recent relocation to Japan is at the root of this inexplicable account revocation? Grasping at straws is a hobby of mine :)

Since you've already tried so many things and one of your remaining concerns seems to be that some element of Windows could potentially be getting in the way, I would suggest downloading various versions of VeraCrypt Portable and using it in a WinPE environment rather than full Windows. WinPE is a stripped-down version of Windows that lacks some of the system services that could possibly get in the way of a successful mount, and this would also eliminate potential conflicts with other software that...

Between the size of the bounty you offered and your dogged persistence in this matter, my curiosity is getting the better of me. How many Bitcoin have you potentially lost if this is unsuccessful? I won't be offended if you decline to answer, but I'm curious.

Your Royal Fogginess, Is it possible you are mis-remembering the type of encryption you had on this disk? If it's booting under legacy MBR mode, then whole-disk encryption should still be available, as you desire. But if it boots under EFI mode, then only the system partition will submit to your encryption decree and the whole disk option will be humbly but properly greyed. There is a sacred scroll that may further enlighten you, located here (skip to the last paragraph)... https://veracrypt.jp/...

Your Royal Fogginess, Is it possible you are mis-remembering the type of encryption you had on this disk? If it's booting under legacy MBR mode, then whole-disk encryption should still be available, as you desire. But if it boots under EFI mode, then only the system partition will submit to your encryption decree and the whole disk option will be humbly but properly greyed. There is a sacred scroll that may further enlighted you, located here (skip to the last paragraph)... https://veracrypt.jp/...

Hi Barry, This sounds like one of the first issues I saw reported by some VeraCrypt users who were upgrading to the earliest releases of Windows 11 (with significant changes to Explorer), and later updates corrected the behavior. Here's the workaround I suggested at the time, which several users reported as working: Create a shortcut to the VeraCrypt executable file and place it in your "SendTo" folder located here... C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo Then Explorer or any...

Speaking only as a non-moderator, the impossibility of fulfilling your request without a brute-force attack is the reason so many people have chosen VeraCrypt to protect the privacy of their data. If it's not the reason you chose it, then you should have surveyed the available encryption products and picked something more easily broken. That's on you.